Xiaomi is producing a plastic toy robot that you can assemble into different forms, and control with an app. Called the Toy Block, the coding toy appears to rely on Lego-like pieces. The kit will come ...

Toy robots are nothing new. In the 1980s, the R2D2-like Tomy Verbot or the clunky Milton Bradley Big Trak let kids program their movements or actions using voice commands or a keypad. The marketing ...

When [Ezra Thomas] needed inspiration for his senior design project, he only needed to look as far as his own robot. Built during his high school years from the classic 1979 Frank DaCosta book “How to ...

Arya Grigaliunas sat on the floor of the Storytime Room at Winter Park Public Library on Sunday and swiped her fingers back and forth across the screen of a purple-cased iPad. The digital movements ...

There are efforts to promote coding to kids, but they're typically aimed at an older demographic -- few young children are ready to sit at a keyboard and start writing. Play-i hopes to foster that ...

It’s the metal, plastic, and wires that give the robot its shape and allow it to move around. Engineers in this field design ...